Full Description
In 1996, an international symposium entitled "Future Perspectives in Gastroenterology" was held in the city of Leipzig, State of Saxony, Germany. Leading scientists in diverse fields of gastroenterology presented their recent findings and undertook the propitious risk of speculating about future directions. Thanks once again to the generous support of the Falk Foundation, it was possible to revisit a symposium with the same title, but held this time in the beautiful, rebuilt city of Dresden in Saxony. This book contains the proceedings of the Falk Symposium No. 161 on "Future Perspectives in Gastroenterology", held October 11-12, 2007. It presents many innovative themes as well as "new faces" and offers a rich opportunity to learn firsthand about the latest scientific discoveries in the broad field of gastroenterology. Several of these novel developments are probably well on their way to being implemented in clinical practice.
Contents
List of principal contributors List of chairpersons Preface SECTION Ihonour of Ernst Otto Rieckens 75th birthday: Immunological therapy of Crohn's disease.- 2 Cytokine pathways in inflammatory bowel disease - the yin and the yang.- 3 Biologicals for treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases - quite in fashion or really necessary?.- SECTION II: OESOPHAGUS AND STOMACH.- 4 Functional dyspepsia - pathomechanisms, diagnostics, therapy and prospects.- SECTION III: LIPOPROTEINS AND BILE ACIDS: PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.- 5 Gastrointestinal regulation of cholesterol balance.- 6 Chaperoning organic anion transporters through the hepatocyte.- 7 Pathophysiology of bile secretion.- SECTION IV: BILE DUCT DISEASES.- 8 Pathogenesis of gallstone formation: updated inventory of human lithogenic genes.- 9 Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of biliary neoplasm: theories and techniques for resection of lower bile duct neoplasm.- SECTION V: PANCREATIC PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.- 10 Cellular mechanisms of pancreatic digestive enzyme secretion.- 11 Genetics of chronic pancreatitis.- 12 Acute-phase reaction of the pancreas.- SECTION VI: PANCREATIC DISEASES.- 13 Acute pancreatitis.- 14 Chronic pancreatitis: clinical and molecular update.- 15 Gene expression analysis reveals the complexity of acute pancreatitis.- 16 Key Note Lecture: Future of endoscopy in gastroenterology.- SECTION VII: GASTROINTESTINAL ONCOLOGY I.- 17 Gastrointestinal lymphoma.- 18 New developments in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy and prevention of gastric cancer.- 19 Key Note Lecture: Relationship between exocrine and endocrine pancreas .- SECTION VIII: GASTROINTESTINAL ONCOLOGY II.- 20 Hepatocellular carcinoma: future perspectives.- 21 The role of the polyomavirus, JC virus, in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer.- 22 Key Note Lecture: Gastroenterology in the tropics.-Index
